New Books Selection: The Art of Hung Liu

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This new book accompanies a recent exhibition of works by Chinese-American artist Hung Liu at the Oakland Museum of California. Hung Liu and the Rene de Guzman, Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum, have created a set of interviews on YouTube, so that not only can you read the artist's quotes in the book, but listen to her voice as she describes her approaches to paintings and other works. It's an interesting way to experience a book, to hear the voice of the artist along with her paintings, that portray people in China from the time of the Cultural Revolution forward to the present. Often in a political context, the paintings and mixed media works use photographs, some faded, to "make history and memory materialize in the present." - p. 82 Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu.

Authors:Liu, Hung, 1948-Title: Summoning ghosts : the art of Hung Liu Publisher:Berkeley : University Of California Press, 2013Notes:Catalog of the exhibition Summoning Ghosts: the Art of Hung Liu, organized by René de Guzman on behalf of the Oakland Museum of California and presented March 16-June 30, 2013